Little Pancho Vanilla

Little Pancho Vanilla is a 1938 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin, with story by Tedd Pierce.[1] The short was released on October 8, 1938.[2]

Little Pancho Vanilla
Directed byFrank Tashlin
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Story byTed Pierce
StarringMel Blanc
Shirley Reed
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byRobert McKimson
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
October 8, 1938
Running time
7 min
LanguageEnglish

Pancho is a Mexican boy, described by comics historian Don Markstein as "even more heavily stereotyped and lacking most of [Speedy Gonzales]'s particularly admirable attributes."[3]

Despite only appearing in one cartoon, Pancho was resurrected in 1952 as a backup feature in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies comic book, appearing from issue #130 (Aug 1952) to #154 (Aug 1954).[3]

Plot

Pancho, sighing over exciting tales of bullfighting, dreams of being a real toreador, even if his mother doesn't want him to fight bulls. He's spurred to show what he can do in the ring when three saucy senoritas whom he wants to impress cast their eyes at a poster of a handsome matador named Don Jose. The trio of girls with their colorful costumes show off their charms. However, Pancho is outclassed by other amateurs and by the bull. Pancho enters the amateur bullfight anyway and wins, thus realizing his dream.

Home media

References
  1. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 78. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. Markstein, Don. "Little Pancho Vanilla". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.


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